Hope for Healing, Faith for Living Podcast

This is the second episode dealing with discouragement..

Summary:

It may not be your fault that you got hurt but it is your responsibility to get healed.

Life can sometimes knock you down but it’s your responsibility to get back up. 

You can get discouraged but it’s up to you to get your courage back, your enthusiasm for life.

Winston Churchill said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

Proverbs 24:16 says, “for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again…”

Sometimes bad things will happen, plans will fail, friends may even turn on you. But, God is with you and it’s your responsibility to realize that and that alone is reason to have joy.

1 Samuel 30

4 Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep. 5 David's two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. 6 And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul,[b] each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.” 

David strengthened himself. Some translations say that he encouraged himself.

Now how do you do that? You do it by getting your mind off the problem and getting it on God.

Start with peace.

Isaiah 26:3 says, “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.”

Now start looking at the promises of God and his faithfulness.

I shared these two scriptures before but I want to again.

Psalms 27:13-14 NIV

I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.

Romans 15:13 NIV

13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

So now the question is, will we take responsibility to have peace and be of good courage?

Joshua 1:9 ESV
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Whether we like it or not, this life is a battle and we will face hardships. The question really is, how will we face them? Will we face them feeling sorry for ourselves and discouraged or will we face them with great courage knowing God is with us.

Let’s be the ones who keep our minds on God and face the battles with great courage.

Blessings in Christ,
Tim Dumas

Email: timdumasok@gmail.com
Website: www.hopeforhealingfaithforliving.com